Affect-Language
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.224
13. > Affects Are Si gnifier s
Theoretical move: By mapping Lacan's lalangue/la langue distinction onto neuroscientific accounts of language acquisition (Changeux's selectionism, neural pruning, neuroplasticity), Johnston argues that the ambiguity and imprecision of affect-language is not merely an epistemological deficiency but reflects the real structure of affective life itself—a Hegelian move that locates the uncertainty of affect-taxonomies in the thing itself rather than in representational inadequacy.
the affect-languages of the latter (i.e., the words and phrases of natural languages designating emotions and feelings) are notoriously ambiguous and vague